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A Theory of the Absolute

Part of the Palgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137412829

ISBN: 978-1-349-48973-2

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Oct 19, 2015

1 - 10 of 12 Chapters

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Chapter 1Introduction: A Theory of the Absolute

Göcke, Benedikt Paul

Pages: 1 –16

[Any system of philosophy is an attempt to answer fundamental philosophical questions in a way that combines the minimum number of principles with the maximum explanatory force in accounting for empirical reality. Ideally, there would be only one principle that explains everything, or at least...
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Chapter 2Possible Worlds and Individual Essences

Göcke, Benedikt Paul

Pages: 17 –36

[Conceivability is an important element of any kind of philosophical analysis or argument. It is a guide to the realm of the possible and, as such, is a type of a priori reflection because we do not need to rely upon the a posteriori justificatory force of experience in order to engage...
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Chapter 3Existence and Individual Essences

Göcke, Benedikt Paul

Pages: 37 –54

[The concept of individual essences replaces the terminology of states of affairs in a philosophically adequate ontology of possible worlds. Although a particular exists if and only if its individual essence is exemplified, this thesis needs further elaboration to show how the account developed...
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Chapter 4Time and Individual Essences

Göcke, Benedikt Paul

Pages: 55 –76

[Possible worlds can be understood in terms of individual essences. A possible world is a maximally consistent combination of co-exemplifiable individual essences. A particular exists in a possible world w if and only if the actuality of w entails that the corresponding individual essence is...
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Chapter 5Conceivability and Individual Essences

Göcke, Benedikt Paul

Pages: 77 –98

[In this chapter, I argue that the thesis that conceivability entails metaphysical possibility is analytically true, because the objects of our acts of conceiving are individual essences — the building blocks of possible worlds.1 I specify two distinct modes of conceivability, refute the most...
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Chapter 6A Clarification of Physicalism

Göcke, Benedikt Paul

Pages: 99 –114

[Physicalism, the currently dominant philosophy of mind, is the thesis that everything is physical.1 To clarify what this means, I argue that physicalism is a thesis about actually exemplified individual essences. According to physicalism, the only class of actually exemplified individual...
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Chapter 7A Refutation of Physicalism

Göcke, Benedikt Paul

Pages: 115 –132

[Should one be a physicalist? In this chapter, I argue, benevolently, that the argument from causal closure is either unsound or question-begging, but, more realistically, that it is absolutely misplaced because its scope is restricted to a certain class of mental properties. It does not even...
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Chapter 8Reflections on the Soul

Göcke, Benedikt Paul

Pages: 133 –153

[The purpose of this chapter is to provide a more detailed account of the ontological status and the nature of subjects of experience.]
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Chapter 9Concepts of God in Philosophy and Theology

Göcke, Benedikt Paul

Pages: 154 –168

[The following chapters deal with questions concerning the being and nature of God, and God’s relation to empirical reality. People often talk past each other when they debate about God. In the worst cases, atheists deny the existence of a God which no theist ever claimed to exist. In order to...
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Chapter 10The Contingency of Empirical Reality

Göcke, Benedikt Paul

Pages: 169 –181

[Empirical reality is partly constituted by the infinity of possible worlds, one of which is the actual world, the subsistence of subjects of experience, and the mutual ontological and epistemological fit between subjects and objects of experience. In this chapter, I bracket the term ‘God’ and...

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